(I) Continuous Economic Growth Promotes Employment Increase and Residents' Income Growth
1. Since the reform and opening up, the province's economy has maintained rapid growth. 1979-2007 the province's GDP grew at an average annual rate of 9.3%. Especially since 2004 for four consecutive years to stay above 11%. 2007, the province's GDP exceeded 900 billion yuan, reaching 914.5 billion yuan, an increase of 14.4% over the previous year, the highest growth rate since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Calculated on the basis of resident population, the province's per capita GDP was 14,405 yuan, an increase of 109% over 2000, doubling. The province's total fiscal revenue of 111.931 billion yuan, an increase of 25.2% over the previous year. Among them, the local fiscal revenue was 60.318 billion yuan, up 26.2%. Enterprise efficiency improved significantly. The province's industrial enterprises above designated size realized profits of 45.956 billion yuan, an increase of 70.1% over the previous year, an acceleration of 26 percentage points.
2, the employment situation is better. In recent years, Hunan adhere to the expansion of employment as an important goal of development, the implementation of active employment policy, and do a good job of college graduates, demobilized soldiers resettlement, urban new labor force and rural surplus labor force employment. 2003-2006, the province's urban cumulative total of 2,266,400 people, laid-off unemployed re-employment of 1,196,100 people, an average annual growth rate of 11.1% and 2.0%, respectively. In 2006, the province's total wage bill for employees was 71.523 billion yuan, an increase of 56.0% over 2002. at the end of 2007, the province's employed labor force numbered 38.8341 million, an increase of 2.1%. Annual rural migrant workers amounted to 14,808,900 people, an increase of 2.5%; annual urban employment of 650,100 people, an increase of 3.9% over the previous year; 30,900 urban zero-employment families have realized at least one person per family employment.
3, the residents of the income growth faster. 2007, the province's urban residents per capita disposable income of 12,293.54 yuan, compared with 323.9 yuan in 1978, an increase of 5.1 times, an average annual growth of 6.5%. Among them, from 2001 to 2007, the average annual growth reached 9.3%.
From 1978 to 2007, the province's per capita net income of farmers increased from 142.6 yuan to 3904.3 yuan, an increase of more than 27 times, after deducting the price factor, the actual growth of 4.6 times, the actual average annual growth rate of 6.1%. In particular, since 2004, the central government has issued four consecutive "No. 1 Documents," which have increased support for agriculture, the countryside and farmers, mobilizing farmers' enthusiasm for production; not only did farmers increase their incomes as a result of developing production and working outside the home, but policy subsidies also directly increased their incomes, and, together with a significant increase in the prices of agricultural products during this period, made farmers' incomes rise by more than 27 times. In addition, the price of agricultural products in this period has risen sharply, making farmers' income grow faster, and the average growth rate for the four years from 2004 to 2007 reached 7.8%.
(2) The standard of living of the residents has been improving, and the consumption structure has seen new changes
1. The level of consumption has been increasing year by year. With the rising income level of urban and rural residents and the deepening of reform, the level of consumption expenditure of urban and rural residents in Hunan Province has been increasing year by year. in 2007, the per capita consumption expenditure of urban residents and the per capita living consumption expenditure of rural residents in the province amounted to RMB 8,990.72 yuan and RMB 3,377.38 yuan, respectively, an increase of 10.1% and 12.1% compared with the previous year. Compared with 1978, the per capita consumption expenditure of urban and rural residents increased by 8,701.16 yuan and 3,237.31 yuan, an increase of 30 times and 23.1 times, respectively, after deducting the price factor, the average annual real growth of 5.5% and 4.8%.
2. Consumption structure has been gradually upgraded. 2007 per capita consumption expenditure of urban residents in the province amounted to RMB 8,990.72, an increase of 10.1% over the previous year. Expenditures on household equipment and services, clothing and food increased by 17.4%, 17.2% and 13.8% respectively. Urban residents' consumption has gradually evolved from survival-oriented subsistence consumption to enjoyment-oriented consumption, with the Engel coefficient dropping rapidly, and the proportion of consumption expenditure on services being gradually increased. The total per capita living consumption expenditure of rural residents amounted to 3,377.38 yuan, an increase of 364.33 yuan over the previous year, or 12.1 per cent. Of this, food, clothing and housing increased by 14.5%, 17.5% and 20.8% respectively. Affected by the rising prices of pork and other major foodstuffs, the Engel's coefficient of the province's urban and rural residents has increased. The Engel's coefficient for urban residents was 36.1%, and that for rural residents was 49.6%, respectively 1.2 and 1.0 percentage points higher than the previous year.
3. Living conditions continued to improve, and after the housing reform in 1998, a major breakthrough was made in the reform of the urban housing system, with the abolition of the physical and welfare housing system that had lasted for decades, and the full implementation of the monetization system of housing distribution, which brought about a major shift in urban residents' housing consumption, with home purchase and housing expenditure becoming the main one-time expenditure of households. Housing consumption has become one of the major expenditures of families. Surveys show that in 2007, in the face of the continuing rise in commodity housing prices, the rate of home ownership among urban residents in Hunan Province rose further, to 90.7%, an increase of 3.98 percentage points over the previous year. The proportion of commercial housing per capita rose from 21.4% in the previous year to 25.8%. Urban residents' housing consumption has increased, and the living environment has been gradually improved. By the end of 2007, the per capita living floor area of urban residents in the province had reached 34.71 square meters, an increase of 5.49 square meters or 18.8% over the previous year; the per capita living area was 28.4 square meters, an increase of 3.3% over the previous year. Residents' housing has gradually changed from meeting basic survival needs to being spacious and comfortable. Many families have achieved a suite of rooms per household and a room per person. With the increase in living space and the improvement of housing conditions, the degree of living comfort has become higher and higher. Many families have air-conditioning, water and electricity, gas supply and other facilities, convenient transportation, a more elegant and comfortable environment. 2007, the province's urban residents drinking water situation further improved, drinking water to mineral water and pure water-based residents of the proportion of the previous year's 15.2% to 18.3%; have sole use of piped water in the popularity of residential households has reached 99.5%. In terms of sanitation and heating equipment, the proportion of households with toilets and bathrooms has reached 85.1 per cent, an increase of 16.5 percentage points over the previous year; 41.3 per cent of households use heaters and air conditioners for heating. In terms of cooking fuels, 69% of households used piped gas and liquefied petroleum gas, and the proportion of households using coal and other fuels was significantly lower than in the previous year. Residents' expenditure on water, electricity and gas is also increasing year by year. 2007 Hunan urban residents' per capita expenditure on water, electricity, fuel and other expenses amounted to 573.24 yuan, an increase of 2% over the previous year.
In 2007, Hunan rural residents' per capita consumption expenditure on housing amounted to 508.33 yuan, an increase of 40.39 yuan or 20.8% over the previous year. The increase in housing expenditure is mainly due to the purchase and construction of housing and decoration of living rooms and living water and electricity expenditure increased more. Among them, per capita expenditure on materials for the purchase of housing for construction and living purposes amounted to 154.92 yuan, an increase of 23.49 yuan, or 17.9 per cent; per capita expenditure on materials for the purchase of housing for decoration and living purposes amounted to 49.19 yuan, an increase of 13.5 yuan, or 38.9 per cent; and per capita expenditure on the purchase of water and electricity for living purposes amounted to 53.11 yuan, an increase of 9.07 yuan, or 20.6 per cent. The per capita housing area of rural residents was 40.18 square meters, an increase of 2.3%. After their living space has been satisfied, farmers are mainly turning to improving the quality of their housing, renovating more of their homes and improving and increasing their housing facilities. There are 5% of peasant families with cold and warm air-conditioning, 40% of the families installed cable TV network, rural residents at the end of the year, on average, per 100 families have 61.4 telephone, mobile phone 75.6.
4, family durable consumer goods upgrade. Figures show that urban households are gradually saturated with major consumer durables, and the growth of household consumption, especially the purchase of consumer durables, is slowing down year by year. In the traditional electrical cooling at the same time, as people pay more and more attention to the quality of life, emerging household durables such as cell phones, computers, air conditioning, flat-panel TVs, etc., is replacing the traditional electrical appliances as the position of the current stage of the "consumer" hot spot. However, the consumption of durable goods by rural residents always lags behind that of urban residents. For example, 39.44% of urban residents have computers in their homes, while only 0.96% of rural residents have computers; it is common for urban residents to have 3-4 air-conditioners in one household, while only 3.3% of rural farms have air-conditioners; at the same time as farmers' homes are equipped with large color TVs, many urban residents' homes are equipped with high-definition LCD and plasma televisions. Almost every urban resident has a washing machine and refrigerator, while in rural areas there are only 29.76 washing machines and 16.54 refrigerators per 100 households. While 26.27% of households in towns and cities have access to home networks, rural towns and villages have only begun to take off. Many primary and secondary school students in cities and towns have cell phones, while in rural areas the number of telephones and cell phones has risen from none to 60.32 and 64.73 respectively. Urban residents look forward to cars, every 100 urban households have 2.1 family cars; rural residents buy motorcycles, every 100 households have 33.05 motorcycles, an increase of 10.9 times over 1996.
(C) Gradual improvement of educational conditions in urban and rural areas, and substantial breakthroughs in compulsory education
1. Higher education is developing rapidly, and the population with college and higher education is growing rapidly. According to the 2006 Population Sample Survey, among the total population of the province, 5.1% of the total population have college and above education, an increase of 1.8 percentage points compared with 2000; on average, for every 100,000 people, the number of those who have college education or above has increased from 2,926 people in 2000 to 4,732 people, an increase of 61.7%.
2, the scale of senior secondary education has expanded significantly. The population with senior high school education accounted for 14.5% of the province's population, an increase of 1.8 percentage points over 2000; the average of every 100,000 people with senior high school education increased from 11,177 people in 2000 to 12,982 people, an increase of 16.2%.
3. The development of compulsory education has made a historic breakthrough. The province has fully accomplished the historical task of universalizing nine-year compulsory education, and all county-level administrative districts have passed the acceptance of "universal nine", with the population coverage rate reaching 100%. The province's population with junior high school education accounted for 42.6%, 2.1 percentage points higher than in 2000.
(D) "medical care for the sick" goal is gradually being realized
1, the basic medical care for urban workers can be guaranteed. 2007, the end of the province's urban workers to participate in medical insurance amounted to 6.250 million people, an increase of 10.7%. Among them, 4,386,200 active employees and 1,189,500 retirees.
2, the new rural cooperative medical care pilot from point to point gradually spread. Starting from 2003, Hunan Province's new rural cooperative medical care in Changsha County, Huarong County, Guiyang County, Lianyuan City, Huayuan County and other five counties (cities) for the pilot program, in 2004, 2006, 2007, respectively, an increase of 3, 29 and 56 pilot counties (cities). According to statistics, in 2007, the province **** mobilized funds in place of 1.992 billion yuan, an increase of 133.3% over 2006, of which 1.598 billion yuan of financial subsidies at all levels (the central government of 810 million yuan, the provincial level of 502 million yuan, municipal and county level of 286 million yuan), the participating farmers personal contributions of 394 million yuan. 2007, the province's total *** subsidies of 9.0221 million people, subsidy expenditure of 1.691 billion yuan, per capita hospitalization subsidy of 719.79 yuan, an increase of 34.54 yuan over 2006. Through the implementation of the new rural cooperative medical system, effectively solved the problem of difficult access to medical care for farmers. 85.8% of the participating farmers chose to hospitalize in county and township designated medical institutions; 73.75% of the hospitalization subsidies for the participating farmers flowed to the county and township designated medical institutions, effectively boosting the demand for rural health services, and the formation of a long-term, stable input mechanism for the rural health care system.
3. The pilot work of medical insurance for urban non-employed persons was carried out. By January 2008, the number of non-employee medical insurance participants in Changsha, Changde, and Xiangtan had reached 1.2 million people.
(E) social security level has been improved year by year
1, the level of social security in cities and towns has been gradually improved. 5,566,100 employees participated in basic pension insurance in 2007, an increase of 2.7% over the previous year; 1,830,000 retirees participated in basic pension insurance, an increase of 9.2%; 3,880,000 participated in unemployment insurance, an increase of 0.4%; 3,880,000 participated in unemployment insurance, an increase of 0.4%; and 1,830,000 participated in basic pension insurance. The number of people participating in unemployment insurance was 3.88 million, an increase of 0.4%; the number of people participating in medical insurance was 6.250 million, an increase of 10.7%; the number of people receiving unemployment insurance benefits was 176,100, a decrease of 23.1%. The number of people receiving unemployment insurance benefits was 176,100, a decrease of 23%. The annual payment of basic pensions for enterprise retirees amounted to 15.620 billion yuan, an increase of 18.9%, while the payment of minimum subsistence guarantee for urban residents amounted to 1.561 billion yuan, an increase of 13.0%.
2. Wage payment for migrant workers is basically guaranteed. In order to safeguard the interests of migrant workers, since 2004, Hunan has taken the lead in the country in establishing a guarantee system for the payment of migrant workers' wages in the construction industry. By the beginning of 2008, the province had set up more than 3,000 special accounts for the guarantee fund, depositing a total of nearly 1.8 billion yuan in the guarantee fund, and had paid nearly 1.5 billion yuan in wages to migrant workers, solving the problem of large-scale delays in the payment of wages to migrant workers.
3. Rural minimum subsistence guarantee has been carried out. in 1996, Hunan Province started to establish a pilot rural minimum subsistence guarantee, which at that time only stayed at the fixed amount of assistance for rural households with special difficulties. since 2000, places with the conditions have begun to explore the establishment of a rural minimum subsistence guarantee system. By 2007, all of the province's 122 counties (cities and districts) and 16 non-administrative districts had established rural minimum subsistence guarantee systems. According to data from the Department of Finance, in 2007, the province*** raised 2.34 billion yuan for urban and rural minimum-security and five-guarantee support, an increase of 417 million yuan, or 22 per cent, over the previous year; the centralized rate of support for five-guarantee households reached 15 per cent, an increase of 3 per cent over the previous year, safeguarding the basic living needs of urban and rural minimum-security households and five-guarantee households in rural areas. The province's average monthly protection for urban low-income families was 1.34 million people, with a monthly per capita supplement of 96 yuan, while the average monthly protection for rural low-income families was 1.1 million people, with a monthly per capita supplement of 30 yuan.
4, the level of social welfare has been improved. 2007, the provincial financial input of 57.4 million yuan, of which 5 million yuan of the budget arrangements, the lucky draw public welfare fund arrangements 52.4 million yuan, to support the province's 285 homes for the elderly in the renovation and expansion work.
5, charity and commercial insurance business development accelerated. Philanthropy is an important symbol of the progress of social civilization. Since the mid-1990s, Hunan Province, the gradual growth of charitable organizations, by the end of 2006, the province's civil affairs departments registered all kinds of civil organizations have developed to 11,973, of which 66 foundations, 81 charitable associations, Red Cross organizations, 3,761, social assistance acceptance of the station (point) of 1,600, "charity supermarkets
The development of commercial insurance is fast. 2007, Hunan Province, insurance premium income for the first time exceeded 20 billion yuan mark, amounting to 20.131 billion yuan, an increase of 36.2% over the previous year, the highest increase in the past five years. Among them, property insurance premium income of 4.782 billion yuan, an increase of 42.8%; life insurance premium income of 13.573 billion yuan, an increase of 37.8%; health insurance premium income of 1.061 billion yuan, an increase of 10.4%; accident insurance premium income of 714 million yuan, an increase of 14.9%.